Gasoline set to build refinery in Ogun
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun. The Ogun State Government, under the leadership of Dapo Abiodun, has taken a major step towards making the state an oil producing one, as a firm, Gasoline Integrated International, expressed its readiness to build a N3 billion refinery in Tongeji Island, Ipokia Local Government Area of the State. A statement issued in Abeokuta by the Governor's Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin said the refinery when completed will be refining 400,000 litres of crude oil into petrol per day. The Chairman of the company, Dr. Lukman Bolaji, who disclosed this, when he led the company's directors on a courtesy call on Governor Abiodun in his office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, noted that the firm is into upstream and main stream and had acquired an oil block at Tongeji Island. The refinery, he explained, would be located at Ipokia and would refine 100,000 litres per day and other petroleum products at the beginning, and expand to 400,000 litres per day in the futu...